29 Aug 2023
Read reporter @NicholeManna's tweet: "You can't report on this weekend's shooting without also acknowledging the racism that has occurred in Jacksonville for decades. ...." x.com/NicholeManna/status/16… #AxHandleSaturday
29 Aug 2023
11 Fatal Minutes That Have Jacksonville Confronting Racism Yet Again. Authorities are investigating the murders of three Black victims by a white supremacist gunman as a hate crime. nytimes.com/2023/08/27/us/ja… @nytimes @NicholeManna @annabettss @PatriciaMazzei @splcenter
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29 Aug 2023
Break it down Rachel Maddow! Teach! #massmurderjacksonville #racism #axhandleSaturday #History #Florida
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29 Aug 2023
Now wonder @RonDeSantis wants to remove Black History… so it can be REPEATED. #AxHandleSaturday #Jacksonville #August27th #Maddow
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27 Aug 2023
Hate Crimes in Jacksonville aren’t a secret… #axhandlesaturday
27 Aug 2023
Today is the 63rd anniversary of Ax Handle Saturday, a vicious attack on non-violent Black protesters by the Ku Klux Klan (aided by some JSO officers) in downtown Jacksonville, FL. Nothing happens in a vacuum and history often repeats. #Jacksonville jacksonville.com/story/news/…
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This Saturday, we remembered one of the most tragic days in Jacksonville history: #AxHandleSaturday. You may have seen the mural in the Eastside depicting the day through a collage of imagery - learn more about the most famous part of it: thejaxsonmag.com/article/the…
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24 Aug 2022
In addition to our friends @rodneylhurst and @johnnettabcole who are featured on our murals, you’ll also hear from three of our winning #JaxNEXT100 writers and get the chance to watch our winning film “Unless We Tell It” about #AxHandleSaturday on its anniversary this Saturday.
24 Aug 2022
Join us at the #JaxCivilRightsConf Thursday to Saturday! From celebrated local civil rights leader @rodneylhurst to education powerhouses like @johnnettabcole and @MichaelEDyson, you’ll hear from some of the most impactful leaders in social justice. unitedwaynefl.org/jacksonvil…
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27 Aug 2021
On the 61 year anniversary of Ax Handle Saturday, we reflect on the hate and terror that spilled on the streets of downtown Jacksonville. Where dozens of white men attacked Black civil rights activists in wielding ax handles and baseball bats. 1/2
#jaxpol #axhandlesaturday
27 Aug 2021
The videos aren't long: Just 2 minutes and 21 seconds combined. But the newly found footage quickly captures the tension and savagery of the day 61 years ago that became known as Ax Handle Saturday.
jacksonville.com/story/news/…
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Hurst is also the author of “It Was Never About a Hot Dog and a Coke”, as referenced on the mural, which chronicles his personal account of #AxHandleSaturday and Jacksonville's civil rights movement: youtube.com/watch?v=o9qLpFbg…
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27 Aug 2021
Today, is the 61st anniversary of #AxHandleSaturday, a racist attack on a peaceful lunch counter protest in downtown Jacksonville. Last year, I spoke with survivor & local activist Rodney Hurst about the events & impact of that day: google.com/amp/s/www.actionn…
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In the summer of 1960, Jacksonville’s NAACP Youth Council led sit-ins protesting racial segregation, as pictured on the left of the mural. On August 27, #AxHandleSaturday, one of the sit-ins turned bloody and young demonstrators were chased with ax handles.
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As we remember #AxHandleSaturday, a tragic day in Jacksonville history in which nonviolent racial protests turned bloody, we’re shining a light on the different components of the Eastside’s mural depicting the event (find it on A. Philip Randolph Blvd):
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19 Jun 2021
Innocent until proven guilty...?
Murdered. Dead before trial.
#BlackedOutHistory
POGROM
#AxHandleSaturday #Juneteenth #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #Juneteenth2021
newsobserver.com/news/politi…
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19 Jun 2021
#Juneteenth2021 #BlackLivesMatter #BLM
#TEXAS
#TULSA
#Jacksonville 2021
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18 June
#Juneteenth
20 June
businessinsider.com/trump-go…
Trump's GqP 2020
convention WAS to take place on
60th anniversary of
kkk attack
on Black activists
#AxHandleSaturday.
Lest we forget...
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This is a Jacksonville moment in Black History. Learn more about #AxHandleSaturday. #BlackHistoryMonth
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28 Aug 2020
The photography shot by @jaxdotcom's @SelfTUPhoto is remarkable! The images tell the #AxHandleSaturday story, our past, present and future, with hope. Truly inspirational!
27 Aug 2020
PHOTOS | The 60th anniversary of Ax Handle Saturday was commemorated in the newly renamed James Weldon Johnson Park in the heart of downtown on Thursday. jacksonville.com/picture-gal…
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28 Aug 2020
"America is broken and it needs to be fixed." - said DeVandis Griffin Sr. the son of Charlie Griffin whose bloody photo from #AxHandleSaturday became an icon of the #CivilRights movement.
I had a chance to speak with him at yesterday's 60th Commemoration.
bit.ly/34H3AZ4
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27 Aug 2020
Attended the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the NAACP Youth Council Sit-ins and #AxHandleSaturday in James Weldon Johnson Park today. Hopeful for a better Jacksonville. ❤️ #LiveUnited
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27 Aug 2020
“There is no formula to tell anybody how they should fight racism and how they should change racism. But for me, doing nothing is not an option." -Rodney Hurst, Activist & Survivor of #AxHandleSaturday. Here's a link to my special report bit.ly/3b4Ibdu @ActionNewsJax
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27 Aug 2020
In an exclusive interview, Charlie’s only living sibling, sits down with me to discuss #AxHandleSaturday. That story is tonight at 6 only on @wjxt4.
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27 Aug 2020
Jacksonville’s #AxHandleSaturday might have been buried (or not mentioned) in local headlines, but it received national attention when a beaten, bloodied and bruised teen by the name of Charlie Griffin appeared in @LIFE weeks after that violent August day.
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